Archive for September, 2010

Five Reasons Businesses Must Be Social To Survive

Published by Shawn Hessinger
Small Biz SurvivalWhy is it so important for your small business to be social? Last week Valentine Belonwu, an active member here at BizSugar and blogger at Big Money Web was good enough to mention the BizSugar community as one of the top 92 social networking sites for 2010. (Thanks so much, Valentine. We appreciate it.) But it got us to thinking about the importance of being social today. And being a social community ourselves, we turned to our members …

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Building Your Own Brand of Awesomeness

Published by Shawn Hessinger
bizsugar brandIn his book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell tells the rather unusual story of William Dawes, a contemporary of Paul Revere who was unable to create the same furor as Revere did with a similar ride to alert colonists that "The British are coming" in April 1775 near the beginning of the American Revolution.  I sometimes think of Dawes when a member here at BizSugar or a client asks about …

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A Big Thank You From Our Team!

Published by Shawn Hessinger
Thank You - Words on Yellow Sticky NotesWell, last week marked the wrap up of our second SugarTone Sweet Blogging Contest and we'd just like to thank everyone who participated from both BizSugar, the small business news and social media community, and the Bloggertone business blogging network to help make this contest a success.  As Niall Devitt at Bloggertone put it:   First place winners Greg Fry and Frank Bradly split the first place prize of $350 in products and gift …

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SugarTone: Have You Commented/Cast Your Vote?

Published by Shawn Hessinger
Have you commented or cast your vote yet in the SugarTone Sweet Business Blogging Contest? Time is running out, but there is still an opportunity to get involved with deciding the first place winner of the contest and even to win a cool second place prize. See the video below and please feel free to use it in an effort to further promote contributions by the end of the contest on Thursday. So here's where YOU come in. Contributors …

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